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OBSERVER SPORT She’s a dedicated worker Gymnasts show style www.spec.com.au FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2018 P. 8 $2.00 inc GST Excitement builds READY for some festive fun: Maggie Johnston, 6 (left), and Clara Johnston, 4 (right), are excited to celebrate Christmas with Santa on Monday night. Foreshore festivities will run from 5.30pm-8pm, with music, kids’ activities and a visit from Santa some of the highlight promised on the night. Full details of the Christmas Eve activities: PAGE 4. Picture: ELLY HATELEY 181217eh01 Big crowd at info session EPA holds ‘community conference’ on abalone farm proposal ANGELA MCFEETERS ABOUT 160 community members put their end-of-year and Christmas preparations on hold on Wednesday evening to attend consultations about a proposed abalone farm. Yumbah Aquaculture is planning to build a $60 million facility at the Dutton Way, Bolwarra, site, located between two caravan parks and adjoining residences, holiday accommodation and farmland. The session – which organisers the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) labelled a “community conference” – was scheduled after 338 people wrote submissions about Yumbah’s proposal earlier this year. EPA representative Richard Hook told the audience 71% of the written submissions had been opposed to the Yumbah proposal at the site, while 29% were in favour of it. Wednesday’s attendees were invited to read the brief summaries the EPA had made of the 338 submissions before the EPA gave people the opportunity to note down any further issues if they hadn’t been defined yet. Participants included Yumbah Narrawong employees wearing their work uniforms as well as several people who were public about their opposition to the proposal by sporting protest slogan T-shirts. More than two hours was dedicated to sit-down discussions and people adding notations about site selection and land use zoning, noise and odour, marine ecology and whales, dust generation and health effects, job creation, tourism and recreation. Effluent discharge and biosecurity, hydrogeology and the water table, visual and landscape amenity and climate change, sea level rise, coastal erosion and planning restrictions were also topics of discussion. Earlier on in the evening time had been dedicated to brief presentations about project updates. Mr Hook said the volume of submissions received was “a very high number for a project.” He added that on December 10, the EPA had formally requested further information from Yumbah. They were after a desktop hydrogeological assessment, a draft biosecurity plan and a response to some Department of Environment, Land, Water AN ESTIMATED 160 people attended Wednesday evening’s community conference about the proposed new abalone farm at Dutton Way, Bolwarra. and Planning (DELWP) queries. The EPA had also sought a risk assessment about respirable crystalline silica disturbance (or the potential for crystalline silica to be breathed in when sand is dug during construction work). He said once the “full package” of additional information had been received it would be Picture: ELLY HATELEY 181219EH15 circulated to community members that had registered with them. DELWP representative, Alison Farrar, said its focus for assessment of the proposal had to be on the pipelines and sea wall associated with the development. Continued: PAGE 2